It
is said that a certain French count began the day by wishing himself the following "Good morning": "Bonjour, Monsieur le comte; there are great things for you to do to-day!" Surely in all the world's history there were never greater things to be done than there are now, and there were never better equipped men and women to do them than those who are striving to follow the words and works of the master Christian, Christ Jesus.
This stanza from hymn number 63 in the Christian Science Hymnal is only one of many examples in the Hymnal, as well as in the Bible and the writings of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, which show that spiritual light is a requisite to true advancement.
Whatever
the reason which impels one to begin the study of Christian Science, it will not be long before the insistence of this Science on the allness of Spirit and the unreality of matter is recognized.
William Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Maryland,
In a recent issue of the Baltimore American there is a statement that attempts to explain the reason why Christian Science is so effective in healing diseases.
My
native land! What thrills of emotion, what flights of fancy, what tenderness are associated in the heart with these three words! But with the enlarged understanding which Christian Science gives of all things, these find a place on a higher plane than that on which a merely material sentiment found them.